A chosen calling : Jews in science in the twentieth century / Noah J. Efron.
Series: Medicine, science, and religion in historical contextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ; Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781421413822 (electronic bk.)
- 1421413825 (electronic bk.)
- Jews in science in the twentieth century
- Science -- Social aspects
- Judaism and science
- Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Jews -- Palestine -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Jewish scientists -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish scientists -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
- Jewish scientists -- Social aspects -- Israel -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Civilization -- Jewish influences
- Russia -- Civilization -- Jewish influences
- Palestine -- Civilization -- Jewish influences
- SCIENCE / Essays
- SCIENCE / Reference
- 500.892/4009041 23
- Q180.55.S62 E37 2014eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : a vanload of rabbis in the culture wars of Kentucky -- Introduction : "Ridiculously disproportionate"? -- "Holding high the torch of civilization" : American Jews and twentieth-century science -- "Second only to Communism" : making Soviet Jews and Soviet science -- "Making a land of experiments" : science and technology in Zionist imagination and enterprise -- Conclusion : when all worlds were new worlds.
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